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  ”It is said that he advised his disciples that every time they went into their own house say the following: 'Where did I trespass? What did I achieve? And what duties did I leave unfulfilled?'”
Introduction
- - About veidos.org
    - - Dodecahedron
        'In geometry, the only regular polyhedra are called "the Platonic solids". They are five in number: the tetrahedron (which has four exactly equal faces), the cube (six faces), the octahedron (eight faces), the dodecahedron (twelve faces) and the icosahedron (twenty faces). Rightly they should be called "the Pythagorean solids", since Plato had learned about them in Pythagoras' school. If you add to these five the point as the beginning and the globe as the end, you get the number seven. The order is then: (1) the point, (2) the tetrahedron, (3) the cube, (4) the octahedron, (5) the dodecahedron, (6) the icosahedron and (7) the globe. The point stands for the one in each series of seven or the beginning of the manifestation, the globe for the seven or the completion of the manifestation; in our solar system the point represent the manifest world (world 43), the globe represent the physical world (world 49).'
        WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE DODECAHEDRON?
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  - What Pythagoras Taught about the Meaning of Life
  - – Part 1
    - - SYSTEM
        ‘is thought’s way of orienting itself. Facts are largely useless until reason can fit them into their correct relationships (historical, logical, psychological, or causal ones).’
        K 1.1.34
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  - – Part 2
    - - LAWS OF LIFE
        ‘ Laws of nature concern matter and motion, and laws of life concern the consciousness aspect.‘ ‘The laws of life most important to mankind are the laws of freedom, unity, development, self (self-realization), destiny, reaping, and activation.‘ ‘Those most important for the individual are: the laws of freedom, unity, self, and activation - especially the first two.‘ ‘The laws of life make possible the greatest possible freedom and unerring justice for all. Freedom, or power, is the individual’s divine, inalienable right. It is acquired through knowledge of the Law and through unfailing application of the laws. Freedom (power) and law are the conditions of each other. Development implies purposefully applied activity in accordance with the Law. Otherwise the cosmos would degenerate into chaos.’
        KOV 1.41.15f
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  - – Part 3
  - The Knowledge of Life – From Secret to Public
  - Henry T. Laurency and His Works
    - - MENTAL SELF
        Monad having its most important kind of self-consciousness in molecular world 47:4-7 within the solar system. Mental selves belonging to the human kingdom are at the stage of humanity.
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  - Esoteric Terminology and Symbolism
  - Advice to Esoteric Students
    - - ESOTERICIAN
        ‘The esoterician has once and for all left the world of illusions and fictions, which mankind prefers living in, to enter into the world of reality.’
        K 1.43.6 ‘The mystic thinks that man’s reason cannot explain existence, which, it is true, it cannot. The esoterician knows this, but then is not content with the ability of human reason to ascertain superphysical facts, but seeks that higher reason which can achieve contact with the Platonic world of ideas. Until then, he will accept no other superphysical facts than those from the planetary hierarchy. Proof that ‘facts’ really are facts he gets from their having their given places in the Pythagorean hylozoic mental system, and their being the simplest and most general explanations of previously inexplicable realities.’
        K 3.6.5
        ‘On the whole it can be said that in the conditions prevailing at the present time, true esotericians do not join any societies, but are to be found outside all kinds of organizations. They can be recognized by their understanding of all things human, and they strive after truly human relations between all irrespectively of race, nationality, sex, religion, politics, and all other things that separate man from man.’
        K 3.7.12
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  - The Basic Esoteric Dictionary
    - - Search in ‘The Basic Esoteric Dictionary’
      - ESOTERICS, BASIC AXIOM OF:
        ‘There are laws in everything and everything is expressive of law.’
        (K 4.11.7)
        
        THREE ASPECTS OF EXISTENCE:
        ‘Existence is a trinity of three equivalent aspects: matter, motion, and consciousness. None of these three can exist without the other two. All matter has motion and consciousness.’
        K 1.4.4, 4.1.2
        
        DYNAMIS
        ’The original cause of motion, the source of all power, the one primordial force, the universe’s total energy, is the dynamic energy of primordial matter, which Pythagoras called dynamis. It is eternally active, inexhaustible, unconscious, absolute omnipotence.
        ’Dynamis acts in every primordial atom, and only in the primordial atoms, which penetrate all matter.
        ’Dynamis is the fundamental cause of the perpetuum mobile of the universe.’
        KOV 1.25.1ff
    - - The Swedish edition of The Basic Esoteric Dictionary
    - - MONAD, THE; THE SAME AS PRIMORDIAL ATOM,
        ‘is the smallest possible part of primordial matter and the smallest firm point for individual consciousness.‘ K 1.4.5, 1.12.1
        ‘The monads are the sole content of the cosmos.‘ ‘All forms of matter existing in the cosmos consist of monads at different stages of development. All these compositions of monads are being formed, changed, dissolved, and re-formed in innumerable variations, but the monads’ matter aspect remains eternally the same.‘ K 1.12.1f
        'By "monad" is meant the individual as a primordial atom and by ‘self’ the individual’s consciousness aspect.' K 1.15.3
        'The primordial atom’s memory is indestructible though latent. In order to remember anew it is necessary to renew the contact with previously experienced reality. Causal selves and higher selves are able to do so in the planetary and cosmic globe memories.' K 1.23.4
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The Esoteric World View
- - Brief Presentation
    - - COSMOS
        A cosmos is a globe in primordial matter, which consists of primordial atoms.
        ‘Its original dimensions are small, but, being supplied with primordial atoms from the inexhaustible store of primordial matter, it grows incessantly until it has reached the requisite size.’
        ‘A fully built-out cosmos, such as ours, consists of a continuous series of material worlds of different degrees of density, the higher penetrating all lower. The highest world thus penetrates everything in the cosmos.
        ‘The worlds are built out from the highest world, each higher world supplying material for the next lower world, which is formed in and out of the higher ones.
        ‘There are seven series of seven cosmic material worlds, making 49 in all (1–7, 8–14, 15–21, 22–28, 29–35, 36–42, 43–49), in accordance with the constant division into seven departments. These atomic worlds occupy the same space in the cosmos. All the higher worlds embrace and penetrate the lower worlds.’
        ‘All the 49 worlds differ from each other as to dimension, duration, material composition, motion, and consciousness; due to differences in density of primordial atoms.
        ‘The seven lowest cosmic worlds (43-49) contain billions of solar systems. The lowest world (49) is the physical world.
        ‘Our cosmos is a perfect organization.’
        KofR 1.6.l ff
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  - Medium-Long Presentation
  - – The Material Aspect
    - - MATERIEASPEKTEN
        ‘Det finns ingen medvetenhet utan materia. Varje slag av medvetenhet motsvaras av sitt slag av materia. Det finns lika många slag av medvetenhet som det finns materieslag. Den fysiska människans sinnesförnimmelser, känslor och tankar äro tre olika slags medvetenhet och motsvaras av fysisk, emotional och mental materia. Utan fysisk hölje har människan inga sinnesförnimmelser i vanlig mening, utan emotionalhölje inga känslor, utan mentalhölje inga tankar.’
        DVS 2.24.3
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  - – The Consciousness Aspect
    - - CONSCIOUSNESS
        'One of the three aspects of existence. Consciousness in the primordial atoms is from the beginning potential (unconscious), is gradually awakened in the process of manifestation to actualized passive consciousness subsequently to become ever more active in the ever higher worlds of ever higher natural kingdoms.
        'The most important insight about the nature of consciousness is that all consciousness is simultaneously collective consciousness.
        (K 1.16.3) 'There is only one consciousness is the cosmos, the cosmic total consciousness, of which every monad has an inalienable part. This consciousness is an amalgamation of the consciousness of all monads in the cosmos.'
        K 2.4.1
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  - – The Motion Aspect
    - - MOTION
        'One of three aspects of existence. "The original cause of motion is the dynamic energy of primordial matter.'
        K 1.4.6
        'To the motion aspect belong all occurrences, all processes of nature and life, all changes. Everything is in motion and all that moves is matter.'
        'Motion has of old been given manifold designations: force, energy, activity, vibration, etc. As motion should also be considered: sound, light, and colour.'
        'In hylozoics three main causes of motion are distinguished, each one specifically different: dynamis, material energy, will.'
        K 1.24
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  - – Meaning and Purpose of Existence
    - - The Meaning and Goal of Existence
      - The “rebirth” of Everything
    - - MEANING AND GOAL OF EXISTENCE
        'The meaning of existence (a problem unsolvable to theologians, philosophers, and scientists) is the consciousness development of the primordial atoms, to awaken to consciousness primordial atoms which are unconscious in primordial matter, and thereupon to teach them in ever higher kingdoms to acquire consciousness of, understanding of life in all its relationships.
        'The goal of existence is the omniscience and omnipotence of all in the whole cosmos.
        'The process implies development: in respect of knowledge from ignorance to omniscience, in respect of will from impotence to omnipotence, in respect of freedom from bondage to that power which the application of the laws afford, in respect of life from isolation to unity with all life.'
        K 1.30.1ff
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  - – The Kingdoms of Nature
    - - NATURAL KINGDOMS
        The most comprehensive successive stages in the monads’ evolution and expansion are called natural kingdoms. There are twelve natural kingdoms: six in the solar system (worlds 43–49) and six in the cosmic worlds (1–42). The five lower natural kingdoms are natural kingdoms in a more restricted sense; the seven higher ones are called divine kingdoms. The six kingdoms belonging to the solar system are:
        
        the mineral kingdom 49:5-7
        the vegetable kingdom 49:7-48:7
        the animal kingdom 49:7-47:7
        the essential kingdom 49:7-45:4
        the manifestal kingdom, first or lowest divine kingdom 49:7-43
        (K 1.32.1)
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  - Longer Presentation
  - Diagram
    - - The Septenary
    - - Evolution in the Solar System
    - - An Overview of Hylozoic Terms
    - - The Chain of Triads
    - - The Structure of a Seven-Globe
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  - ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW:
    ‘The esoteric world view can never, of course, be anything else for mankind but a working hypothesis. But the further mankind develops, the more evident the incomparable superiority of this hypothesis will become. The causal self is able to ascertain its accordance with facts in the five worlds of man.’
    K 4.11.8
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Esoteric Life View
- - Introduction
    - - Introduction to the Esoteric Life View
    - - LIFE VIEW
        'The life view concerns the consciousness aspect of existence and is the sum total of man's attitude to life, to its meaning and goal, and his view of mankind and man’s ways.'
        'It is from his life view that man derives the bases of his valuations, his viewpoints for judgement, motives for action. The life view includes the conception of right and what is contained in the concept of culture.' P 3.1.1f
        The esoteric life view presented in P 'is termed esoteric since it is based on the esoteric world view and on esoteric facts about the goal of life. There is no such life view that suits all on all levels of development. What in common to them all is the knowledge of the laws of life, which everybody applies according to his understanding of life.' P 3.1.5
        'All who have reached the stages of culture and humanity, have emphasized that in one’s attitude to all people, universal good will and right human relations are the essential thing. We must learn to discard all pretexts for friction, not only tolerate but rejoice in the individual (and independent!) conceptions of all as proof of their own judgement at their level.' K 5.44.2
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  - General About Laws of Life
    - - Knowledge of the Law
      - Laws of Life
    - - LAWS OF LIFE
        'Laws of nature concern matter and motion, and laws of life concern the consciousness aspect.
        'The laws of life most important to mankind are the laws of freedom, unity, development, self (self-realization), destiny, reaping, and activation.'
        'Those most important for the individual are: the laws of freedom, unity, self, and activation - especially the first two.'
        'The laws of life make possible the greatest possible freedom and unerring justice for all. Freedom, or power, is the individual’s divine, inalienable right. It is acquired through knowledge of the Law and through unfailing application of the laws. Freedom (power) and law are the conditions of each other. Development implies purposefully applied activity in accordance with the Law. Otherwise the cosmos would degenerate into chaos.' K 1.41.15f
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  - The Law of Freedom
    - - FREEDOM, LAW OF
        'The law of freedom says that every monad is its own freedom and its own law, that freedom is to be gained by law, that freedom is the right to individual character and activity within the limits of the equal right of all.'
        K1.41.8
        'Unconscious and, to a still higher degree, conscious encroachment upon the monads' inalienable, inviolable divine freedom, limited by the equal right of all living beings, results in the struggle for existence and the cruelty of life.'
        K 4.11.4
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  - The Law of Unity
    - - UNITY, LAW OF
        'The law of unity says that all monads make up a unity and that every monad for superindividual consciousness expansion must realize its unity with all life.'
        K 1.41.9
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  - The Law of Development
    - - DEVELOPMENT, LAW OF
        'The law of development says that all monads develop their consciousness, that there are forces acting in different ways towards the final goal of life.'
        K 1.41.10
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  - The Law of Self
    - - SELF OR SELF-REALIZATION, LAW OF
        'The law of self says that every monad must itself acquire all the qualities and abilities requisite for omniscience and omnipotence, from the human kingdom and onwards: understanding of law and the responsibility following upon this.'
        K 1.41.11
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  - The Law of Destiny
    - - DESTINY, LAW OF
        'The law of destiny indicates what forces influence the individual in consideration of necessary experiences.'
        K 1.41.12
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  - The Law of Reaping
    - - REAPING, THE LAW OF
        'The law of reaping says that all the good and evil we have initiated in thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds are returned to us with the same effect. Every consciousness manifestation has an effect in manifold ways and entails either good or bad sowing which will ripen and be reaped some time.' K 1.41.13
        'If man lives in accordance with the laws of life, his development will progress as rapidly as possibly, without friction, harmoniously, with the greatest possible degree of happiness. But every mistake as to the laws of life (known or unknown ones) entails consequences calculated eventually (the number of incarnations is up to him) to teach the individual to discover the laws and apply them correctly. If he has caused suffering to other beings, he is himself to experience the same measure of suffering. This is the law of uncompromising justice which no arbitrary grace can free him from.
        'It is part of man’s dharma that he must do all he can to reduce the suffering in the world, for all beings and in all circumstances. Those who refuse to help when they can, are guilty of an omission that has consequences and by no means the least ones.
        'The Brahmins’ conception of karma as being inevitable destiny, that one ‘stands in the way of karma’ by trying to relieve suffering and distress, is evidence of fatal ignorance of life. Nobody can ‘stand in the way’ of a law. If anyone is to suffer, no power in the world can prevent that. The suffering we have caused to others can be made good through voluntary ‘sacrifice’ in future lives.' K 7.8.4ff
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  - The Law of Activation
    - - ACTIVATION, LAW OF
        'The law of activation says that individual development is possible only through self-initiated consciousness activity.'
        K 1.41.14
        'All development is the result of work and toil.'
        P 3.23.2
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  - – Meditation
    - - MEDITATION
        'By meditating daily on desirable qualities man can acquire these in any percentage whatever. He will free himself of undesirable qualities by not attending to them and by meditating on their opposites. He will attain higher levels by meditating on the qualities of these higher levels. Without meditation, development is so slow that even after a hundred incarnations there is scarcely any noticeable progress.'
        K 7.23.2
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  - The Twelve Essential Qualities
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Good Thinkers
- - - Pythagoras (ca 700 fvt)
  - - Aristoteles (ca 384–322 fvt)
  - - Marcus Aurelius (121–180)
- - - Konfucius (551–479 fvt)
  - - Mencius (ca 372–ca 289 fvt)
  - - Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
- - - Sokrates (ca 470–399 fvt)
  - - Cicero (106–43 fvt)
  - - Leibniz (1646–1716)
- - - Platon (ca 427-347 fvt)
  - - Seneca (4 fvt–65)
  - - Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
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